Just for the record, bmibaby started CWL ops in October 2002 (hard though it may be to believe that).
BA announced the closure of their Cardiff base - including the CDG and BRU services - on 17 December 2002. All flights ended within weeks of that date.
Just for the record, the announcement of the closure of the BA Cardiff base was many months before December 17th.....
I was involved in the redundancy and re-hiring at the time... And the news was public knowledge...... CDG and BRU did run longer as the J-41s went first, then the EMB-145s....
GOOGLE ain't pefect!!!!
According to the BBC, it was late MAY that Aviance announced closeure of it's Cardiff base due to BA pulling out, only to be 'saved' by BABY stepping in and choosing Aviance late in negotiations, ready for it's winter operation to commence....
---Just felt it needed to be said---
Cheers
AvUk